Sunday, January 26, 2014

Lit terms #4

interior monologue:
inversion:

juxtaposition:
lyric: “AM I MORE THAN YOU BARGAINED FOR YET,  I’VE BEEN DYING TO TELL YOU ANYTHING YOU WANT TO HEAR” – Fall Out Boy
magic(al) realism:
metaphor (extended, controlling, & mixed):  Plato’s allegory about how the cave respresents humans being sheltered to their own lives.
metonymy:  
modernism: check out the new great Gatsby compared to the older version.
monologue: Romeo o romeo, where art though romeo?
mood: MAD. SAD. ANGRY. What does the text provoke?
motif: Kind of like an extended metaphor but it’s a theme that the text relates everything to. For example if the theme was about happyiness maybe the diction, simbols and such relate.
myth: Greek myths. Hercules. Aphrodite. Stuff like that.
narrative: LORD OF THE RINGS. Billbo Baggins telling Frodo.
narrator: Morgan Freeman is usually this.
naturalism: INTO THE WILD (must read this book)
novelette/novella: Heart of Darkness. (book)
omniscient point of view: t
hird person omniscient is a method of storytelling in which the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters in the story, as opposed to third person limited, which adheres closely to one character's perspective.
Onomatopoeia: BOOM. POW. AH. E. O. ARG. ER. MER. GERD. ZAP.
oxymoron: Organized mess. Alone in a crowd. A fine frenzy (mess). Arrogant humility.
pacing: Like when you’re running long distances, you’ve got to pace how fast you run, so like authors have to pace how fast they want their story to go.
parable:
a simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson, as told by Jesus in the Gospels.

paradox: I’m a walking paradox. JK.
Nobody goes to that restaurant, it's too crowded

War is peace. I want to be happy but I’m sad.

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